Insecticide-distributer for planters.



0.716,1421. y Patented nec. le, |902.

" H. SWINDLER.

I NSECTICIDE DISTRIBUTER FOB PLANTERS. (Alplietion med Aug. 2e, 1902.)

(No Model.) v2 Sheets-Sheet 1|.

ma Noms versus en.. womuwo. waswaro. n. c.

' N. 76,|42. Patented nec. la, |902.

y j H. swlNnLEn. w *INSEGTIGIDE DISTRIBUTER FDR PLANTERS.

(Application filed Aug. 26, 1902.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-*Sheet 21.

In: Nonms virtus co PwyoLm-ln. wnsmunfon. n. c.

UNITED STATES.

ATn'NT Fries.

HENRY SWINDLER, OF MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-.HALF TO JOHN TUOKEY, OF MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA.

INSECTICIDEDISTRIBUTER FOR PLANTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,142, dated December 16, 190.2.

Application filed August 26, 1902.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

` Be it known that LHENRY Sw1NpLnR,a citizen of the United States, residing at Mitchell, in the county of Davison and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful Inseciicide-Distributer for Planters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved, apparatus adapted to be used in connection with a corn 1o or other planter for automatically depositing liquid or powdered substances or compounds in the hills as the seeds are planted therein, to destroy or prevent the growth of fungus, and to destroy cutworms and other noxious insects and prevent them Afrom injuring thel young plants when they sprout; and my invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of an insecticide-distributing apparatus embodying my improvements, showing the same attached to the seed-tube of a corn-planting machine and connected to the rock-shaft of the corn-planting machine vfor operation thereby. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on a plane indicated by the linead of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail elevation 3o of the rock-arm which is attached to the rock shaft of the planter and which operates the l plunger of the distributing apparatus.

. The insecticide-distributer herein shown is especially adapted for use in connection with that class of corn-planting machines in which the seed-dropping mechanism includes a rockshaft A. However, I would have it understood that m'y distributing apparatus may be 'used in connection with othertypes of plant- 4o ers, and I do not limit myself in this particular. u

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a `cylindrical body l, which has its lower and upper ends closed by semispherical or 45 other suitably-shaped caps 2 3, which are interiorly screw-threaded and engage exterior screw-threads on the ends of the cylindrical body. Hence the caps are detachably connected to the cylindrical body and may be 5o readily removed therefrom. The bottom cap 2 is provided with a stuflng-box 4, which is Serial No. 121,132. (No model.)

screwed to a downwardly-projecting nipple 5, with which the said cap is provided.y The upper cap 3 is provided with a central opening 6. In the chamber formed by the cylindrical body 1 and the caps 2 3 is alplungerrod 7, which extends therethrough and operates in the nipple 5 and guide-opening 6. The said plunger-rod is provided at a suitable distance from its lower end with a cup 8, which 6o is a cavity in one side thereof and is adapted to be moved from within the chamber to a point below the stuffing-box 4 when the plunger-rod is operated. The liquid or powdered compound to be distributed by the apparatus is placed in the chamber formed by the body v1 and caps 2 3, which may be readily done by first removing the upper cap 3.

The cylindrical body 1 is detachably secured to the seed-spout B of the planter by 7o U-shaped bolts 9 and clip-bars l0, the arms of the said bolts and the said clip-bars embracing the sides of the seed-spout, as shown in Figs.` 1 and 3. The clip-bolts have nuts 11, by means of which the clip-bars are clamped firmly againstopposite sides of the seed-spout, and the cylindrical body 1 is firmly clamped in position thereon. I also provide an operating-arm l2 of suitable length, which is screw-threaded, as shown in Fig. 4. On the 8o rock-shaft A of the planter is detachably 'secured a yoke 13. The latter is bent from a single bar of metal to embrace the rock-shaft and to form a pair of arms 14, the said yoke being, in effect, a split ring. Th'e arms 14 of 85 the yoke are provided with openings through which the operating-arm l2 extends, and on the latter are clamping and adjusting nuts 15, which adapt the operating-arm to be longitudinally adjusted to increase or diminish the 9o throw..of its free or outer end and also serve to clamp the yoke 13 on the rock-shaft, as will be understood. The operating-arm l2 is provided at its outer end with an eye 16, to which is pivotally attached the upper end rof a pitman 17, the lower endV of which'is pivotally connected to an eye 18 at the upper end of the plunger-rod 7. It will: be understood that when the machine is in operation the motion of the rock-shaft will cause the loo arm 12 to oscillate, and therebyimpart vertical reciprocatory motion to the plunger-rod 7.v On each upstroke of the latter the cup 8 is disposed Within the chamber containing the liquid or powdered insecticide or compound, so that the said cup 8 becomes filled therewith, and on each downstroke of the plunger the contents of the said cup are discharged therefrom as the saine move below the stuing-box 4 into the hill, in which seeds are siin ultaneously dropped by the operation of the planter. It will be understood that by removing the nuts l1 from the U-shaped bolts 9 and by loosening the nuts 15 on the arm l2 the apparatus may be readily removed from the planter.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. An insecticide-distributing attachment for planters, comprising a vessel having means to detachably secure it vto the seedspout, a plunger-rod to reciprocate in the vessel and having a cup therein, an operatingarm, means to detachably secure it to a shaft of the planter, and a pitman connecting said operating-arm to the plunger-rod, substantially as described.

2. An insecticide-distributing attachment for planters comprisinga vessel having means to detachably secure it to the seed-spout, a plunger-rod to reciprocate in the vessel and having a cup therein, a screw-threaded operating-arm, a clamping-yoke, adapted to be placed on a shaft of the planter and having arms with openings through which the operating-arm extends, adjusting and clamping nuts on the latter, to bear against the yokearms, and a pitman connecting said operating-arm to the plunger-rod, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a seed-spout of a planter, a vessel comprising a cylindrical body, and upper and lower caps screwed to the respective ends thereof, said caps having guide-openings therein, clip-bolts embracing said cylindrical body and securing the same to the seed-spout, the caps of the vessel being respectively above and below the clipbolts to lock the vessel against endwise movement, a plunger-rod extending through the vessel and the guide-openings in the caps thereofl and having a cup for the purpose set forth, an operating-arm, means to secure it to a shaft of the planter, and a pitman to connect said operating-arm tothe plunger-rod, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY SWINDLER.

Witnesses:

T. J. SPANGLER, HARRY MoDoNALD. 

